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Bitcoin is bad for the environment, for now. There is no way to value Bitcoin. It has no intrinsic value. Its valuation is a narrative. The higher the price goe
by dnprock 6y ago
Bitcoin is bad for the environment, for now. There is no way to value Bitcoin. It has no intrinsic value. Its valuation is a narrative. The higher the price goes, the more energy we'd spend on mining it. I call this the Bitcoin Price Paradox [1]. But it's not all hopeless. We can find a way to ground Bitcoin to reality by develop non-speculative use-cases. Then we can develop a valuation model. I believe the key to solving this paradox is to have an inflationary crypto. It can drive payment adoption. I'm involved with Bitflate, a crypto with 7% inflation [2]. Once we have payment adoption, we can create valuation models and control energy spend on mining.
[1] https://bitflate.org/post/2021/02/05/the-bitcoin-price-paradox.html https://bitflate.org/post/2021/02/05/the-bitcoin-price-parad...
[2] https://bitflate.org/bitflate.pdf https://bitflate.org/bitflate.pdf